prevarication
n. 支吾; 搪塞; 說謊; 有枝有葉
If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision.
British ministers continued to prevaricate.
英國的大臣們仍然閃爍其詞。
1. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
2. intentionally vague or ambiguous
3. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
The result can be a lot of needless prevarication.
結果就是帶來一堆的藉口.
Prevarication must not be the name of the game.
而搪塞決不能成為遊戲的名字.
All my attempts to question the authorities on the subject were met by evasion and prevarication.
我就這個問題質問權威的一切努力均被迴避和搪塞.